Fascinating and very interesting museum! Every country should have at least one museum or exhibition/community space dedicated to gender.

The museum focuses on gender and equality. It originated in the early 1980’s as a Women’s Museum. In the 1990’s the museum received state recognition as a national specialist museum, responsible for portraying women’s cultural history in recent time. In 2021, it changed its scope to the cultural history of gender and became the Gender Museum.
Read more about the history and scope of the museum here.

Wall of body activism.

Gender and cycling:

On the 3rd floor, there was a (temporary, I think?) exhibition about the interconnections between gender and food, and gender and climate. I was pleasantly surprised to see it also touched upon topics as the masculinity of meat (eating), ‘soy boys’, veganism, the climate impact of a non-vegan diet, and in general ‘the sexual politics of meat‘, as originally analysed by Carol J. Adams.

My excitement was somewhat tempered when we wanted to order some pastry at the museum’s cafe and found out there were no vegan options available … The staff member was very friendly and totally understood our concerns.
I wrote a note about it in the guest book (sorry for my terrible handwriting, I wrote very quickly 😉

So to the Gender Museum. All oppressions are interconnected and no one is free until all are free. Please also show respect, justice and compassion to other animals, and make the cafe all vegan 🙂

• Visit June 2024

KØN – Gender Museum

Domkirkepladsen 5, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark

website: https://konmuseum.dk/english/